Anecdotal and irrelevant

Bruce Bell’s anecdotal references to isolated but significant mid-20th century weather events occurring in the northern tip of a relatively tiny country are irrelevant to a rational conversation on human-induced global warming (Remember the 50s, letters March 28).

Regarding his quoted 2007 petition of over 30,000 signatories denying the influence of greenhouse gases on climate, only 39 declared a background in climatology and another 112 in atmospheric science (see Petition Project website).

That petition and accompanying documents were made to look like official papers from the prestigious National Academy of Science. They weren't, and this attempt to mislead has been welldocumented.

Authorship of the apparent research paper included two oil-backed scientists, and the exercise was an attempt to undermine support for the Kyoto Protocol.

In a 2008 University of Illinois survey of earth scientists from a data base which listed geoscience faculties at a wide range of academic and research institutions in the US, not scientists at large, it was found in general, among the